Tales and Novels of J de La Fontaine — Volume 19
Jean de La Fontaine
Publisher: Project Gutenberg
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For ages, people have been asking themselves these questions: "Where did we come from and where are we going? What is the sense of our existence? Do we have an immortal soul?" And… "Is there a God?" If you also seek these answers, but find the religious books too heavy and the infamous answer "42" too cryptic, then this short story is just right for you. It may not reveal you "the absolute truth", but it will certainly inspire you to your further contemplation.Show book
Experience a heart-pumping and thrilling tale of suspense!Originally published in THRILLER (2006),edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author James Patterson.In this Thriller Short filled with Balkan intrigue, bestselling author Denise Hamilton uses a chapter from her own life to create an unforgettable escapade. Jane wants to leave Albania and visit Macedonia so she can attend a Balkan literature conference. She bums a ride from a restaurateur and quickly realizes that there is more to her driver than meets the eye. It’s a trip she will never forget.Don’t miss any of these exciting Thriller Shorts:James Penney’s New Identity by Lee ChildOperation Northwoods by James GrippandoEpitaph by J. A. KonrathThe Face in the Window by Heather GrahamKowalski’s in Love by James RollinsThe Hunt for Dmitri by Gayle LyndsDisfigured by Michael Palmer and Daniel PalmerThe Abelard Sanction by David MorrellFalling by Chris MooneySuccess of a Mission by Dennis LyndsThe Portal by John Lescroart and M. J. RoseThe Double Dealer by David LissDirty Weather by Gregg HurwitzSpirit Walker by David DunAt the Drop of a Hat by Denise HamiltonThe Other Side of the Mirror by Eric Van LustbaderMan Catch by Christopher RiceGoodnight, Sweet Mother by Alex KavaSacrificial Lion by Grant BlackwoodInterlude at Duane’s by F. Paul WilsonThe Powder Monkey by Ted BellSurviving Toronto by M. Diane VogtAssassins by Christopher ReichThe Athens Solution by Brad ThorDiplomatic Constraints by Raelynn HillhouseKill Zone by Robert LiparuloThe Devils’ Due by Steve BerryThe Tuesday Club by Katherine NevilleGone Fishing by Douglas Preston and Lincoln ChildShow book
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez was born in Valencia, Spain on 29th January 1867. At university, he studied law and graduated in 1888 but never felt the urgency to practice - he was more interested in politics, journalism, literature and women. Politically he was a militant Republican partisan and, in his youth, founded a newspaper, El Pueblo (The People). The newspaper was taken to court many times and he made many enemies. In one incident he was shot and almost killed. In 1896, Ibáñez was arrested and sentenced to a few months in prison. Despite this colourful background he found time to write novels. His first published work was ‘La Araña Negra’ (The Black Spider) in 1892, a work that he later repudiated although at the time it was a useful vehicle for him to express his anti-clerical views. In 1894, he published ‘Arroz y Tartana’ (Airs and Graces), about a late 19th Century widow in Valencia trying to keep up appearances in order to marry her daughters well. Ibáñez’s next sequence of books studied rural life in the farmlands of Valencia and failed to gain much of an audience. His writing now took on a new direction with its now familiar sensational and melodramatic themes in 1908 with ‘Sangre y Arena’ (Blood and Sand), which follows the career of Juan Gallardo from his poor beginnings as a child in Seville, to his rise to becoming a famous matador in Madrid However, his greatest success was ‘Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis (The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse) in 1916, which tells a tangled tale of the French and German sons-in-law of an Argentinian land-owner who find themselves fighting on opposite sides in the First World War. It was a literary and commercial sensation and became the best-selling book of 1919. It also propelled Rudolph Valentino to stardom in the 1921 film. Ironically his fame in the English-speaking world has come not as a novelist but as the stories behind some of Hollywood’s greatest silent movies. Vicente Blasco Ibáñez died in Menton, France on January 28th, 1928, the day before his 61st birthday. 01 - Vicente Blasco Ibanez - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 02 - Compassion by Vicente Blasco Ibanez 03 - Luxury by Vicente Blasco Ibanez 04 - Rabies by Vicente Blasco Ibanez 05 - The Last Lion by Vicente Blasco Ibanez 06 - The Windfall by Vicente Blasco Ibanez<Show book
A savage earthquake shakes the world, waking a horror from the bowels of the earth. An ancient cult is discovered who worships an ancient demon whose name is Cthulhu.Show book
‘The Woman Who Rode Away’ is a dark, troubling story set in the wilderness of South America. What makes this story compelling is that the woman is at the end of her personal tether and the Indians are at the end of their cultural one, They seek one another out for terrible but perhaps predictable uses. Each of them looks to the other for "salvation" in a way that expresses the desperation and futility of their situation.Show book
A bumper selection of eight more stories featuring the Norfolk cleric which delights his audience with his idiosyncratic sleuthing.Show book